Stay tuned for the report to come in from the opening of Paul McCartney's Good Evening Europe Tour opening tonight in Hamburg, Germany. Our friend, Bob Gannon is in Hamburg and will be report on the gig.http://www.macca-central.com/news/?3205

From the Beatle News Briefs site...The big news being "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" (has that ever been done live by him before?) & the new " I Want to Come Home", but not far behind is the reappearance of "Magical Mystery Tour" & "And I Love Her". Nice. All that & the soundcheck set list looked like fun too!! What was cut was Calico Skies, I'm Down, & I Saw Her Standing There.Here's the original link (so you can see the photos too!):http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2082 ... rst-photosAnd now onto the report...Here's a report direct from Hamburg with text and photos on the show from Bob Gannon. (Thanks again, Bob!) (You can find more photos from Bob in the slideshow at the bottom of the page. And we have more photos we'll be putting online, so check back.)

Here's Bob's report:

Hi Gang,

I'm sucking fumes from a long exciting Beatle day here in Hamburg. It started at 1 p.m. where we went to the Beatles Store for a meet & greet with Klaus Voorman who was promoting his new album "A sideman's journey". It started with a tour of the Beatles museum, I must say that it's much better than the Liverpool one. Then came an interview, a preview of the making of the album film with Ringo and Paul in it, followed by a question and answer session and finally an autograph signing. Klaus was in good form and signed an item for everyone. We then left there at 4:40 p.m.and made a beeline for the Color Line Arena where our VIP tickets said that we were to be there by 530 p.m. While on line, we started talking to other fans to find out that a guy from Slovakia was going to be the only person at sound check. We had spoken to several of the travel package employees and asked if we could upgrade to the sound check package. They stated that they would ask Paul's people and get back to us. We then were carted off to a skybox for the VIP reception and dinner. It was vegetarian and pretty good other than the fact we ate very little. Paul's people upgraded us to sound check an we quietly left with the other person. So there we are waiting for Paul to arrive and give three lucky fans a private concert. We were told that Paul was running late as he had just arrived from London where he attended Beatrice's school play. While we waited, Shelly (who works for Paul) brought us up to the stage to see Paul's guitars. While we were talking amongst ourselves, Rusty came off stage to say hi to Shelly and greet the sound check guests. Brian Ray and Wix were next to come down . Abe stayed behind his drum kit but waved and blew kisses from his kit. Really already, this has turned out beyond belief. Shelly then informs us that she is upgrading our seats to the first row right under Paul's mic. Wow!! Christmas prezzie early!! She also gave us each one of Paul's guitar picks. We then went back to our seats as we heard that Paul had arrived. Paul came in and did sound check.

While we were there, Nancy came over and introduced herself. She was very nice and looked very pretty. She recognized my friend and gave her a hug while saying hello. Sound check finished and we went back to the skybox very shortly before we were told that we must get to our seats as the show as about to begin. Made our way down to our seats and waited until a little past 9pm when Paul came on stage with a black Beatle coat and black pants with a white shirt with black suspenders underneath. Paul was very chatty al night with the audience and the level of energy was off the charts. He seemed to really be enjoying his return to Hamburg. He welcomed some old friends "Astrid Kircherr, Klaus Voorman who were in the audience. Some small changes to the setist. First, the world premiere of ("I want to) Come Home", which I thought played extremely well live. And then later on we finally got "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da. He spoke German on several occasions, setting up "My Love", "Here Today" and "Something". For "Here Today" he told the story of the song and then encouraged the audience with "Let' hear it for John". While the crowd roared, Paul leaned back and pointed at the sky and said "are you listening old friend". All in all just a super show with incredible energy. It may have ben the best show i've seen this year. Arena was camera friendly. Staff was friendly and helpful. Here's the set list for Hamburg

Paul_Fan wrote:Love how the set-list for tonight was a lot better than what he played during the 09 Summer Tour...

Except that it's almost exactly the same exact show! The only differences were tonight he added "Magical Mystery Tour", "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da", "And I Love Her" & "(I Want To) Come Home", and he cut out "I'm Down", "I Saw Her Standing There", & "Calico Skies"...other than those 3-4 songs, the other 30 or so were exactly the same, and in almost the same order as well. Look I'm sure the performance was great but were talking about 90% the same set lists & shows.

Paul_Fan wrote:Love how the set-list for tonight was a lot better than what he played during the 09 Summer Tour...

Except that it's almost exactly the same exact show! The only differences were tonight he added "Magical Mystery Tour", "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da", "And I Love Her" & "(I Want To) Come Home", and he cut out "I'm Down", "I Saw Her Standing There", & "Calico Skies"...other than those 3-4 songs, the other 30 or so were exactly the same, and in almost the same order as well. Look I'm sure the performance was great but were talking about 90% the same set lists & shows.

That maybe the case, but my favorite Beatles songs are those... lol...